In Memoriam

Thelma Ward, 98, a former teacher and guidance counselor, died on Oct. 30, 2015...

Ruth Harwayne, a founding member of the UFT, was a business teacher and a SPARK coordinator at Washington Irving HS in Manhattan...

Lila Goodman was an English teacher at John Dewey and South Shore high schools in Brooklyn...

Knikia Brown-Lord was a 10-year veteran of the New York City public schools and started out as a parent coordinator in the Bronx before joining Project Ready...

Anna Ext was a teacher and former chapter leader at the High School of Music and Art...

Sheila Milner was a UFT member for 50 years, most recently as a teacher trainer in Manhattan elementary schools...

Barbara Kubota passed away on June 13, 2014. She was an ESL teacher at PS 90 Queens and retired from Queens Vocational HS...

Vincent Jones taught at the Satellite Academy High School, at the Forsyth Street campus...

Amy Sims served as a UFT chapter leader at City College Academy of the Arts in Manhattan for seven years...

Michael Zirkel was a UFT member for 30 years, working as an Industrial Arts teacher at Evander Childs HS in the Bronx for much of his career...

Su Abrams Kwartowitz was a beloved teacher at PS 306 in East New York, Brooklyn...